Jackson Parkhurst

Jackson Parkhurst (1849-May 1921) was an American investor who sold food to the US Army during World War I. Parkhurst, a veteran of the wars with the Native Americans on the Great Plains, was a backer of Commodore Louis Kaestner's attempted coup against Atlantic County Treasurer Enoch Thompson in 1920, but he was killed by Jimmy Darmody after attacking him.

Biography
Jackson Parkhurst was born in 1849, and he served in the US Army during the wars against the Native Americans in the American West. Parkhurst fought in the Wagon Box Fight of 2 August 1867, serving as a bugler for the US 9th Infantry Regiment's 30-man contingent during their fight against 2,000 Sioux warriors. Parkhurst used a breech-loading rifle to mow down several Sioux warriors, who believed that magic protected them from bullets. Parkhurst would become a member of Atlantic City, New Jersey's elite with other war veterans, becoming a millionaire investor through war profiteering. During World War I, he sold chipped beef to the army, becoming rich.

In 1921, he backed Commodore Louis Kaestner's planned political coup against political boss Enoch Thompson alongside several other investors. Parkhurst hit Jimmy Darmody in the head with a cane when Darmody attempted to calm the investors down over the setbacks suffered by the coup plotters, including Kaestner's stroke. Darmody left the meeting and decided to return that night with his friend Richard Harrow, sneaking into Parkhurst's mansion as he was marveling over a Sioux breech cloth. Darmody pinned Parkhurst to his chair using his own cane, and Richard Harrow scalped Parkhurst with a knife, killing him.